Updates: Peasy CD Player v1.3 has an a new Auto button. It auto-starts playback with a simpler control panel than the Play button.

The PeasyMP3 Carousel has returned to its original version with no subfolders or randomization. If you want those features, use right-click-AutoPlay instead. The Carousel no longer appears by default in the menus. If you want it, go to /usr/share/applications and open its .desktop file. Switch the value of the NoDisplay entry from true to false. Reboot.

AutoPlay has a new Repeat button. If you click it, the current track will repeat until you click Skip.

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PeasyMP3 was originally designed as an MP3 player. But it can now play a variety of media formats, including video and Internet streams.

PeasyMP3 works with folders of media files. Drag a folder into the input box or click the Folder Chooser button.

To open a single file in PeasyMP3, right-click on it and use Open With. Your file will be played from a temporary folder. You can also use the right-click method to select a folder.

To make custom playlists, drag links from various media files into a new folder. Also see the hint here for making playlist files.

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If you like PeasyMP3, you can make it your default audio player.

a. Open the file /usr/local/bin/defaultaudioplayer
b. Change it to: exec peasymp3 "$@"
c. Now you can play an audio file by LEFT-clicking on it.

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PeasyMP3 v3.2 has a new startup feature.

a. Create the hidden folder /root/.peasymp3
b. Fill the folder with your favourite media files, links to files, or .url files for your Internet radio stations.
c. Start PeasyMP3. If this folder is detected, it will be loaded into the player.

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There are two more ways to play your media content in PeasyMP3.

1. Right-click on a folder or directory tree and select AutoPlay from the menu. This builds a randomized playlist of the whole collection.
2. See the Carousel feature discussed in the next post.

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PeasyMP3 has several tools for playing Internet audio/video streams.

1. PeasyMP3 recognizes many PLS, M3U and ASX files. Just drop these files into a folder with your other media content. To play these files with a single click:

a. Right-click on a file
b. Select: Set Run Action
c. Enter the command: peasymp3 "$@"

2. If you have the URL for a stream, like:

Code:

http://6693.live.streamtheworld.com:80/CBC_R1_TOR_H_SC

a. create a text file with a .url extension, like "CBC-Radio.url"
b. paste in the URL.
c. put the file in a folder with your other media files.

3. If you have the URL for a playlist file instead of the file itself, like:

No problem. PAUSE and UNPAUSE functions from precord/pavrecord are GPL so you are free to use any code/ideas from there under the same license conditions! ;-)_________________Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.

I've noticed that using v2.7 the tracks don't play in the order shown in the playlist. Seems that it plays the "loose" files in the parent directory first, then starts playing whatever is in the subfolders, even though everything in the playlist is in alphabetical order.

I've noticed that using v2.7 the tracks don't play in the order shown in the playlist. Seems that it plays the "loose" files in the parent directory first, then starts playing whatever is in the subfolders, even though everything in the playlist is in alphabetical order.

Are you talking about using the program which generates the playlist of a directory tree? I have removed it in v2.9 because of issues with the order.

In v2.9 there is a new carousel program. Load it with a selection of folders and it will play in the order you want.

OK, I have tried 2.9 and have the same situation. I think I misunderstood my symptom before, so I will try to explain:

I have a parent directory called Music and it contains various "loose" mp3 and flv files, and also a collection of subdirectories that contain ripped albums (one per artist).

If I drag the Music folder into the main Peasy window and click start it begins to play the "loose" files in alphabetical order (thats good).

Then, if I click playlist I can see that it lists ALL of the contents of the Music folder, in alphabetical order. When I first saw that playlist I figured it was going to work it's way through every track and every subdirectory but I was wrong. It stops after playing all of the "loose" tracks and does not look into the subdirectories.

So in that sense the playlist window is misleading when it displays the names of the subdirectories.

I have not used the carousel yet but I guess that is how I can select some of the subdirectories to be played.

EDIT: I've just tried carousel and it starts to play ok, but is there a way to force it to stop playing the current subdirectory and skip to the one on the next line down? Also - Aaaargh!!! I shut carousel down but it is still playing and I dont have a visible window onscreen. Ghost in the machine
(I guess thats the slight bug to which you were referring?)

EDIT2: Well, that was interesting - I ended up with two songs playing over the top of each other (yes I have two ears but lack the brainpower to process the incoming double stereo...) but no way to kill the player. The cpu meter was showing close to 100%, yet htop showed only 2% used by aplay and nothing else apparently responsible for driving the cpu so hard. Tried to use pprocess to kill various audio related things but without success so had to shutdown via the menu. (Slacko53)

PeasyMP3 has never played files located in subfolders - it only plays the contents of the current folder. To play subfolders is beyond the scope of the program. The subfolders will appear in the playlist along with any other files in the directory, although the program does filter out some obvious non-AV file types. To also filter out subfolder entries would require additional code. I will give it some thought.

The point of the separate Playlist program was to generate a list from a directory tree as you are suggesting. But I found it to be unsatisfactory.

I have tried repeatedly and cannot get the Carousel program to leave a zombie process running. I will look at this.

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I've just tried carousel and it starts to play ok, but is there a way to force it to stop playing the current subdirectory and skip to the one on the next line down?

Hi there, I've been using PeasyMp3 v2.6 for a week or so in Dpup Wheezy without any issues.

Tried version2.9 in lina lite yesterday, had the same issues described above where the player won't play all the files in the folder. Admittedly, lina lite is a stripped down version so that might cause different behaviour, but I noticed I have a mixture of formats in the music file I was trying to play. Peasy would play only the .wav files each time and refuse to play any others.

Not looking for a solution, I'm happy using Peasy in Dpup, just thought I'd pass this on, might be relevant or not

Excellent - Peasy Carousel is fantastic. I tried loading a folder of one artists mp3s to line 1, then a folder of music videos to line 2, then another artists mp3 to line 3, and it was able to work through them all. Skip track and skip disc work great.

Peasy MP3 is good now - the playlist is almost perfect - the only issue was that it displayed the title of the xhippo script I had added to my Music folder (I guess that the script has no suffix, so how to exclude it from displaying in the playlist I wonder??)

If I was to suggest other features it would be these:

1) A "randomise" or "shuffle" feature would be great. EDIT: Maybe this can be done with the addition of button that triggers a repeating sequence of simulated "skip disc x 1, skip track x 1" button depressions?

2) When playing via Carousel I tried removing one disc directory (currently non-playing) and replacing it with a different one, and it showed in the playlist ok but Carousel did not play it and kept going back to playing the original choice that I had now removed from the list. If it was possible to modify a not-currently-playing disc choice that would be a really handy feature.Edited_time_total

playlist is almost perfect - the only issue was that it displayed the title of the xhippo script I had added to my Music folder (I guess that the script has no suffix, so how to exclude it from displaying in the playlist I wonder??)

It's not possible to exclude it. Also, some fIles with other non-A/V extensions like .abw, .odt will also appear in the playlist. Trying to filter out all of them would require major changes.

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A "randomise" or "shuffle" feature would be great. EDIT: Maybe this can be done with the addition of button that triggers a repeating sequence of simulated "skip disc x 1, skip track x 1" button depressions?

I am nervous about doing this because it might re-introduce the problem of phantom music left playing. I'll think about it.

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When playing via Carousel I tried removing one disc directory (currently non-playing) and replacing it with a different one, and it showed in the playlist ok but Carousel did not play it and kept going back to playing the original choice that I had now removed from the list. If it was possible to modify a not-currently-playing disc choice that would be a really handy feature.

Once you press Play, you cannot change the playlist on the fly and the Play button is disabled. Again, I had to do this to prevent the phantom music situation. I will look at this again.